On this page you can find details of our upcoming events and details of previous events which the network has been directly involved in organising. You can also check our Facebook and Twitter.

Our next major CPERN event will be the stream of panels to be held at the European Sociological Association in Porto in August 2024 – full details here

Past Events:

The “Costs of Capitalism” Crisis and the role for Critical Political Economy, Thursday 8 – Saturday 10 June 2023, University of Naples “L’Orientale”, Naples, Italy

University of Limerick, Ireland. Critical Political Economy for a new Global Political Economy – call for papers here

We held a series of panels at the European Sociological Association’s annual conference, 15th ESA Conference, 31 August – 3 September 2021 (online)

Mid-term workshop (zoom): 19-20 June 2020. What’s Next? Critical Political Economy at the End of Neoliberalism?

We held a series of panels at the European Sociological Association’s annual conference, 14th ESA Conference, 20-23 August 2019 in Manchester / UK. WRITE UP HERE

CPERN (RN06) held its mid-term workshop in June 2018 in Lisbon. The theme was: Gender, Race, Class and Ecology in and through Critical Political Economy. More details here

The fifth Critical European Studies (CES) workshop was held in the Central European University, Budapest (Hungary) on 11-12 May 2018. More details here.

The Fourth Critical European Studies (CES) Workshop took place on 23-24 June 2017 at the Goethe-University Frankfurt, Germany. Registration and information here.

CPERN (RN06) held sessions on ‘Resisting Capitalism in, under and beyond Authoritarian Neoliberalism – Radical Praxis, Real democracy and (Prefigurative) Alternatives in the 21st Century’ at the 13th ESA Conference in Athens, 29 August to 1 September 2017.

We are happy to announce that CPERN joined forces with the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) and the Berlin Institute for International Political Economy (IPE) to organise the 7th Annual Conference in Political Political Economy on the theme “The Political Economy of Inequalities and Instabilities in the 21st Century”. The Conference was held at the Berlin School of Economics and Law on 13-15 September 2017.

The 2016 Critical Political Economy Research Network Mid-Term Conference took place on 27-28 May 2016 at the Institute of Labour Studies, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The theme was “(Conflicting) Political Ontologies and Implications for Transformative Action”. You can find the full programme of the conference here.

The Critical Political Economy Research Network (RN06) held several sessions at the 12th Conference of European Sociological Association in Prague, 25-28 August 2015. The full programme of the CPERN sessions can be found here. We’re delighted that the network has attracted such an exciting range of papers, which triggered interesting discussions throughout the conference.

The CPERN 2014 Mid-Term Conference took place in Vienna, 12-13 September 2014. This was an excellent event. Thanks again to the local organisers in Vienna. Follow this link to see the full programme of speakers.

CPERN has also been involved in a number of other events, including the Critical European Studies (CES) workshops. The third and latest CES workshop was held at the University of Greenwich (UK) on 18-19 June 2016. It focused on Europe’s many crises (economic, social, political, ecological, geopolitical) and their consequences, as well as the potential and challenges for resistance, particularly through education and academia. You can find the full programme here.

Previous CES workshops took place in Barcelona (29-30 May 2015) and in Amsterdam (16-17 May 2014).

Primarily however, we have been involved in organising various mid-term workshops and contributing to the bi-annual ESA conferences. These have included our own workshop in Barcelona (2012), and the ESA bi-annual conference in Torino (2013). The first event that CPERN held was in Amsterdam (2006), so this year we are celebrating the network’s tenth anniversary!